Sports in California
Series: Keepsake series (Book Club of California) -- 1986
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 1986
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Sports; History
Notes: "... a series of twelve keepsakes prepared for the members of the Book Club of California during 1986. The series, edited by Gary F. Kurutz, was designed by Don Gray and Wesley B. Tanner at The Twowindows Press and was printed by Wesley B. Tanner and Don Gray at The Arif Press, both in Berkeley, California"--Colophon of each folded sheet.

Issued in portfolio and slipcase 27 cm. in height.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / [Gary F. Kurutz]; title: 2. The birth of ski racing in the California gold rush / [Robert E. Blesse]; title: 3. Early California baseball / [John Crichton]; title: 4.  Boxing : the Benicia Boy / [Richard Dillon]; title: 5. Football : the big game / [Donald R. Fleming]; title: 6. Tug-of-war contest, 1894, San Francisco / [Bruce L. Johnson]; title: 7. Ben Hur revisited : chariot races at the Tournament of Roses, 1904-1915 / [Alan Jutzi]; title: 8. The ethereal sport of ballooning / [Gary F. Kurutz]; title: 9. The jumping frog contest / [Oscar Lewis]; title: 10. Bull versus bear : sport and diversion in early nineteenth century California / [W. Michael Mathes]; title: 11. Polo in Southern California / [David L. Myrick]; title: 12. Wild cheers broke loose : the Great Los Angeles-Phoenix Road Race, 1908-1914 / [Hugh C. Tolford].